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Discretionary Justice : Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court.

Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. Discretionary Justice overviews the syste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paik, Leslie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Critical issues in crime and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Inside the Black Box of Drug Court Justice; 2. Setting and Methods; 3. What Court Day Is He? Intercourt Variations; 4. Building Accountability through Assessments of Noncompliance; 5. Social Construction of Drug Test Results; 6. It's Not Just His Probation, It's Mine: Parental Involvement in the Drug Court; 7. Youth Trajectories in the Court; 8. The (In)justice of Discretion: Drug Courts as Therapeutic Punishment and Therapeutic Justice; Appendix A: Methods; Appendix B: Concepts and Terms; Appendix C: Additional Resources; Notes; Bibliography; Index.